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even then there are only 3 players under 22 - mvg, oscar, kdb with lamps, ba , mata, back 4 and cech all still being above 22. maybe another false 9 game with schurlle up ahead.

too long, got some work... can u give me gist of the article or rather the point u want to make.

BULLSHIT. jose to chelsea was OBVIOUS since jan-feb. OBVIOUS. he had made some comment of how he would not be in RM next season in a PC at that time. RAFA was not going to stay for another season. i remember after a PL match in his interview, rafa was asked if he ll be staying at chelsea for the next season, he smiled and asked the reporter "what do u think?". JOSE to chelsea was done way before SAF took his retirement and mancini was fired. so jose was not considered for it because the deal was DONE, not because his CV was not good enough. as for rafa, he did an okay job. nothing more, nothing less. people still forget that we were 2nd with just 4 points off united before he came. we ended the season 20 odd points behind them and that was when united played their last 5 games as dead rubbers. we lost COC, club world cup, fa cup. at one point of time 4th spot seemed to be a dream, specially when we lost 2-1 to southampton when rafa preferred to rest our players for a useless fa cup game against united rather than making sure of the 4th spot. also there were some hopelessly poor performances. bucuresti(a), qpr (h), southampton (a) etc. the only reason rafa is given any respite here is because we ended the season on an ultimate high. also i cant believe i am trying to defend jose's appointment against rafa's. anyways rafa was no option. it was so obvious. the fans dint want him. the board dint want him (u know something is wrong when the manager of the team says things like "i should have been named manager and not interim manager"). so what other option did we have?

4 players under 22 means??? lets do some calculations none of our striker, cant be the goalie, he wont risk kalas as a CB in the first match itself plus none of the other defenders are below 22. so that is 6 positions accounted for. lamps is starting so that leaves the other 4 positions. which means no mata and willian. so i would guess cech azpi cahill JT bertrand mvg lamps kdb oscar hazard/schurlle. striker (who cares). atleast i hope this is the team.

oh my god!!! seriously??? not many teams would have wanted him after 1 bad year in which he reached CL semi final and came second in la liga. man city, psg and any of the big teams would have gone for him if it was already confirmed that jose was going to be our new manager even before the season started. and do tell me, who we would have got if not JOSE? please enlighten me.

maybe i phrased it wrong then. when i put my post, read the comments before that and that is what i meant. the way this thread was going. with one person winding another and then the other guy resorting to calling names. that is actually what i meant.

nope, that is where he is very clever. he ll be downright degrading towards u. but when u comeback with a reply all he ll say is "TC LEGEND.RESPECT". how and what do u reply to that except for saying get off your high horse, faggot. and then BAM... u r the one in the wrong because u started the name calling.

yup i know... that is exactly what i wanted to say. i mean compare hendo, sterling, aspas with gylfi,chadli,townsend. allen with sandro and capoue. tottenham squad simply thulps them

if u ask me, this thread is the best example of what is wrong with the forum. people just want to wind up other members and then very ironically behave as if they are the saints around here. another problem is the attitude of some members like henriqu (or whatever), termx etc. who suppose they are above the law or something and simply worth more than the others. that attitude of some posters is what starts the name-calling (read this thread to understand what i am saying). for me, their is no simple solution. the mods cant police everything, everywhere. i am sure they have lives too (or i hope so, ). its upto a certain set of posters to tone down a bit.

very good point. and that is one of the reasons i dont understand why people are not giving them enough creditibility for top4. they have as good a first team as tottenham and if they can play well in the big matches and get a couple of points off arsenal and spurs in their 2 fixtures, i dont see why they cant get into top4. the only problem i see with them is injuries. they have no back-up. aspas,sterling simply dont cut it for me, henderson can be very useless on the wings, joe allen is a good squad player.

we can only hope. but this is kinda scary -----------sturridge-------- --moses--countinho--suarez--

yup, played like he wanted to prove a point. hope he continues in the same vein. i just dont know what would happen to him when cunt-suarez comes back. just hope that henderson gets the boot and sturridge is shifted to the right wing rather than moses getting the boot.

MATA is not necessary!!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: u know what, i would rather have our last 30 minutes of the everton game, with and without mata, be the judge of that.

seriously? 40mil (i dont see porto selling him for anything less than that). and it will be the same problems again. buying strikers in the winter should be dubbed as a CARDINAL SIN (torres, ba) unless there is simply no other option or the team has a massive injury crisis. i can only hope that the board has learned somthing for our past dealings and wont repeat the same mistake. ps - JM would not be worth half the money we would have to spend on him. my opinion on the matter - take your chances with what we have already done for the season. hope for etoo, ba/ torres to help our attacking mids get us thru. next season sell ba and torres, dont give etoo an extension (i dont know if he is on 1 or 2 year contract) , recall romelu and actually use him for once and buy rooney (with just one year left in his contract).

for??

last minute goal from williams... please god please, i m getting thulped in FPL..

even in those "abysmal" performances, he somehow managed to score 10 goals in 20 starts. fine by me.

uhm uhm... say what???

CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB - the pride of merseyside. giving liverpool awesome talents, while buying their deadwood at ten times the price.

kk. mis-intepreted.

he should have passed the ball then to players in better position, than losing the ball 10-15 times to coleman/naismith.

http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/16791-analyzing-evertons-goal-how-it-went-completely-berserk/ - a brilliant analysis of the everton goal. clears things up very well.

alen hansen ; "out of the 4 chelsea strikers, lukaku is the best and for some reason, chelsea let him go on loan". says it all does not it?

i dint know azpi played CB.

i dont think barry's tackle was irrelevant, it saved the match for everton. but i also dont have any doubts of what the result would have been if WC strikers like cavani, falcao, rvp, aguero, ibra, rooney were in place of etoo. u can have your opinion, let me have mine. as i said before, i am not going to get burned a third time. not going to expect anything from etoo and whatever he does would simply be add-ons.